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Over the past year, the Amazon Echo has taken the world of smart home tech by storm. In November, Google finally released its long-awaited competitor. The Google Home is a $130 smart home speaker that showcases the artificially intelligent, voice-activated Google Assistant. This clever bit of software lets you set timers, control lights and thermostats, […]

| Share | Share | Share | Share Back in June, a lot of us got a nice chuckle when George DeMarco, chairman of the Electronic Security Expo (ESX), opened the Ft. Worth, Texas, show by having an on-stage conversation with Alexa as part of a three-person – err…entity – roundtable discussion. Turns out, a

HTC marked a new year with a new smartphone series, simply called “U,” and its design deviates from just about everything else we’ve seen from HTC. The HTC U comes in two varieties. The more powerful, larger (and more interesting) HTC U Ultra has a 5.7-inch display and many flagship features, although HTC was reluctant

I’m pretty obsessed with both the word and the idea of kompromat right now. It is, of course, the Russian art of collecting compromising material – images, audio, video – of individuals to blackmail them with at a later date. And it got me thinking about the new-ish trend of putting always-listening smart speakers in

Sears Home Services technicians who run into a jam while repairing appliances will now have a new tool in their toolbox: a smartphone app that livestreams video to a remote support team for further assistance. When techs encounter an unfamiliar issue, the new Seeit app from GoToAssist lets them show remote master technicians what they see,

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The Vizio M Series TVs have Chromecast built-in, and now you can control them with your voice. Photo by Sarah Tew/CNET You’ll now be able to control any Vizio SmartCast device — TVs, displays, soundbars and speakers — with a voice command to the always-listening Google Home. The basics are the same as what you’d

Digital assistants are getting increasingly popular nowadays. There are many of them including Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and additionally Microsoft’s Cortana. As Windows phones aren’t generally popular, Microsoft debuted its advanced Digital Assistant on Android at the end of year 2015 with expectations of extending its user base. As indicated by a report from MSPoweruser, Microsoft

From the 1970s through today, there have been three waves of technology innovation in the Silicon Valley that have spawned many industries, including ours (online marketing). First, there were semiconductors, then personal computers, and most recently, the internet. Now we’re on the cusp of the next wave of innovation, driven by advances in artificial intelligence (AI).